Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim

Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim (1937-) was the Iraqi Ba'ath Party Regional Command Chairman for East Baghdad Governorate.

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Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim was born in 1937 in Baghdad, Iraq to a Sunni Arab family, and he was convicted for attempting to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959, although he was later pardoned. Under Saddam Hussein, he became the Regional Command Chairman for eastern Baghdad Governorate for the Iraqi Ba'ath Party and helped Saddam in plotting assassination attempts. In April 2003, he was captured near Mosul by the Peshmerga.